Daughter of Damascus: A Memoir

(Part of the CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series)

by Siham Turjuman and Siham Tergeman

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Daughter of Damascus presents a personal account of a Syrian woman's youth in the Suq Saruja ("old city") quarter of Damascus in the 1940s. Siham Tergeman wrote this book to preserve the details of a "genuine Arab past" for Syrian young people. In it, she relates the customs pertaining to marriage, birth, circumcision, and death. She writes of Ramadan festivities, family picnics to the orchards of the Ghuta, weekly trips to the public bath,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0292781261

ISBN13:9780292781269

Release Date:March 1994

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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